The Reliable Source Year in Love: It’s complicated

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg at their May wedding. (Allyson Magda/AP) In the year that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wed college sweetheart Priscilla Chan , there were surely some other sweet and simple VIP relationship milestones — but most seemed awfully complex:

Beyonce and Blue Ivy. (Ed Burke for Beyonce.com via AP) • Blue Ivy Carter born to Jay-Z and Beyonce as a squad of trademark lawyers deployed to protect her name.

• David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, who found that secret e-mails are crazy sexy — until they’re just crazy.

• CNN’s Dana Bash and John King separate — but continued working together on-air.

• NFL quarterback Jason Campbell and Jenny Montes call off wedding just hours before Caribbean ceremony.

• Dennis Quaid and wife Kimberly file for divorce. Then reconcile. Then file for divorce again.

Rielle Hunter (George Burns/Harpo Productions via AP) • Rielle Hunter reveals she and John Edwards are on-again. Then off-again. And now, maybe, on-again.

• Kristen Stewart issues groveling public apology for cheating on Robert Pattinson — and it works! She got him back!

• Kate Middleton forced to announce pregnancy early, after super-public bout of morning sickness.

• Katherine Kallinis forced to keep pregnancy secret until “D.C. Cupcakes” season premiere.

• Mary Cheney and Heather Poe have a groundbreaking GOP royalty gay wedding — and keep utterly quiet about it.

Chris Cooley (Matt McClain for The Washington Post) • Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman bafflingly split — the Al and Tipper of the sitcom world?

• Chris Cooley and Christy Oglevee Cooley bafflingly divorce — the Al and Tipper of the Redskins?

• Dinesh D’Souza loses job after trying to juggle new girlfriend, not-yet-ex-wife, while president of a Christian college.

• TomKat, the stunning schism of Hollywood corporate merger, suggests the relationship maybe wasn’t so fake after all.

Tom and Katie in happier times, or something, last February. (Evan Agostini/AP)

The Reliable Source Year in Controversies

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